In our line of work we deal with well over 100 TBs of data during the course of any given year. Prior to purchasing a custom FreeNAS server from iX Systems, we were building our own ZFS-based storage, with less than stellar (read: sad) performance results.

I cannot give iX Systems enough kudos regarding our recent server purchase. The hardware build quality is just fantastic and the performance blows all of our custom-built existing storage servers out of the water. The time from shipping box to in-the-rack and on-the-network was less than 30 minutes. This was easily the fastest and most pain-free installation I've ever done.

FreeNAS is also working out exceedingly well for our needs. For the first time since we've started our operations we've got our workstations operating on data directly on the storage server using zvols exported over iSCSI. FreeNAS makes the complicated seem easy, and my production team couldn't be happier with the workflow change! Especially since they don't have to shuffle physical volumes around the office anymore.

I used to dread deploying a new storage server. Now I can't wait to buy the next one.